The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1887-04-07
The Ocean Chronicle.

we give below some extracts from the Occal
Chronicle, published by Capt. T.. =. Nichols OF
board ship Frank Pcndlcton. Mrs. NchoI
contributes the following:
| ON BOARD THE '.FRANK"
~ am constantly urged to contribute my
mite to fill a corner in the o. G., | will do 5,
at once by writing few lines to my friends al
home. then on arrival, my letters will all be
| ready to post. left home on the 9Th of Nov
taking with me Nancy and Maulc leaving
Belfast on the morning train and after Il long
| dull rainy day we arrived in Bostcn lust in
time to catch the train for Fall River. 1t wa,
Il relief when we found ourselves on the GOOD
| steamer ''Providence" after being on il crowd,
ell train all day, and be lulled to sleep by
| the murmur of the wind and waves from
without, and the music of the band from the
saloon. We arrived in New York all in good
order early Sunday morning and was soon on
board of the Prank" and | must confess that
! felt more like having just arrived home than
having Just left home. The ship sailed from
New York Nov. 18th which left me very little
time to $50 shopping" and prepare my work
] for q sea-voyagc.
| We are now out forty days and hope to pass
| the latitude of Rio tomorrow. There has
| nothing occurred out of the usual course of Il
| life OH the ocean wave, except an unusual
amount of hea,l-wind. Our beating from the
equator to pass Cape st. Rogue was tedious,
but that is among the things of The past, and
we are now running across the :. L. trades
with fine breeze and beautiful weather.
As we are now sweltering under Il tropical
sun | cannot help thinking of the friends at
home who know must find it as hard to keep
warm, as we do to keep cool can hardly de-
eide in my mind which is the more preferable
to freeze, or roast. | thought the matter over
rather seriously before decided to leave home
and came to the conclusion that to keep house
and tend fires through a long cold winter was
aS hard 1 lot as one could voluntarily accept.
My first attempt ut the furnacc-a failurc,-,lt-
cidcd NE to make change in the programme.
for when went down to see how the fire was.
and found that - well, never mind-I inmedi-
atcly had Il family consultation, and in less than,
| twelve hours trunks We're packed, the house
shut up. and we had started without having
time to say good bye to the neighbors. which /
know they will excuse under the circumstances
can truly say that have never regretted
starting on the voyage as the time has passed
pleasantly but almost too swiftly, as it USUALLY
does 1T sea. The children at their lessons,
music, and preparing for Christmas. cannot
imagine WHY the time flies SO fast and il is the
same with all of us. Life at sea is monotonolls.
but when ones time is employed it is most
pleasant mOmOtony.
We have seen an occasional sail. but have
siYhalled but one. and just now there is Il bark
IN sight bound north. There are not many
BIRDS common to this latitude, but we shall
soon be where the albatroS and the cape pigeon
will he in great numbers As for fish. | pre-
Slinle there are many of the linny tribe inhabt
these waters, but they live ON regardless of our
line which has trailed 1000 miles and caught but
one fish. There; have done my part. so will
close this by wishing you all MERRY CHRIST
mas. NJ. a. n.
THE 'RDIIING BIIOW
is the title of neat little sheet edited by the
daughter of Capt. Nichols. We quote from
Vol. No. /.
As papa prints his letter to his friends. we
thought we would like to print one to our
friends. so papa has promised to do the print
in" if we will do the writing.
We have passed in a number of pieces and
nc will print what he thinks best. This is our
first attempt. but we hope to do better if we
keep on trying. \. L. Il NJ. +. NICHOLS.
At SEA AGAIN.
As | have not been to sea for five years
rvcrytlinw,-,lil ! say everything: no, $Du.r
things seem oal. The most important thing |
can remember of my last voyage is when we
were wrecked: can remember that very plain
ly and think never shall forget being hauled
on shore in Il basket. After that | had no wish
to 20 to sea until lately have wished to very
much. | did not like it 50 we'll at first =, |
anticipated. but since got over my >ca->ick-
Ecss | like it very much, and | think shall
never regret that came to sea.
We saw a great many pretty things when
we We're in New York. and while the ship WAS
being towed out. we saw large stone elephant
on fnney Island 1t was Il hotel made to look
lust like an elephant and our passenger SAYS
there is a stairway in each leg.
There are some wooden cows OH there, ALL
covered with hair just like any COW. and when
people go there and want milk, they go and
milk the cow:-a> they say it.
Christmas is very near. so Of course we ar,
all busy making our presents: we cannot buy
amy this year as the store is not very near.
van .ll.,l
over the stove while we are tryin" in vain to
keep cool. How do YOU stand it. Oracle? We
arc now very near the equator; ! shall be
clad when we are far away from it.
II has been some time since the above was
written and must get it finished for papa to
print. We are busy most of the time for with
our studies. music and working on the type.
we do not find much time for anEthin" else.
Our studies, take about three hours. and we
practice when the ship is not rolling. When
there i> 4 calm we tr. to catch birds. will
now close this aid expect You to answer j,i>l
Il, ii it was written. for have written three
for Papa to choose from. N.r.N
"LocAL ITEMS" FROM TIlE CHRONICLE.
"a bird in hand is worth two i'll the bush"
That "fcllar never had hold of an allatro>>.
Capt. Miller. we believe YOU were sincere
when you said the ship would be ''a> stif as a
church," but she is not. on the contrary She is
as crank as a man going home from 4 supper
at > A. NJ. We have to look calmly on others
as they >aiI along with royals set. and we,
@roaninS under nlHn-topgaliaEt-'ail.
We We're hoping to give our sheet Il better
Typographical appearance this time. by using
better type, having bought 80 lh>.. uf-wllat
we supposed was properly a>sortcd->ccond
hand type, but after getting to sea we found
them to be nearly worthless there were so many
kinds. We shall try the type on paper for
Nancy. and Maudc, who says: "Wc want Il pa
per. all our very own. but you must put in the
stops. Their paper, the Rolling Billow will hc
printed just as they write il.
A poor and wcathcr-beatcn sailor was wcari-
ly poddin@ along country road when hunger,
and the >aNory smell of food from Il Kitchen III
luceI him to call for something to eat The
person who answered his knock at the door,
and heard his respectful request cast upon
him whitening look, and said II hate tr:imps
but will give you some bread for Gods sake
Jac took it, and turning it over i'll his gigan-
tic hands. looked at his bcnefactur and asked:
"Madam! how would it do to put Il little but
ter on one side for ChriSt's sakc:' Com.
II is useless to have hope that shipping will
ever revive in the U. s. Shipping is dead from
the most southern state, up to Maine. where
she lies struggling with Death with IN arrow
embedded into her heart from every state away
from the Sea-cOast.
Soon the ship will be numbered with the
Now lay me down to die;
You can't save me-do not try:
You've ate my flesh, now pick m, bones
And that will end my dying groan>.
Lcavin. Barrow Aug. l2th, we arrived in
New York Sept. 18th when we were pleased to
let Pendleton, Carver 4 Nichols, :s South St.
assume all responsibility while we made our
visit to SrarSport We spent six very pleasant
weeks ut home and that electric tongue said
"Get ont of this and we ""etted" ~ quickly
as possible arriving in New York NOV. 5th. and
once more we found ourselves on board the
Frank which soon sailed for Mclhourue
We have Il paSscnycr-Mr. ID. +. Matthew
who is going for his health. lie SAYS all he
wants is good bracin@ air; We think lie has had
enough "hracing air. thus far. as the ship has
had to j" ''braccd up' to catch all the air lin
motipn) we have had.
rhc following lines We're contributed to The
Bow:
MAUDES LAMENT.
The flea! the flea the naughty tlca.
How they do bite and bother me-
To plunge me so, it is not right
oh dear! There's another bite
Why don't they bite my sister Nancy. :
10 me they seem to fake fancy.
They seem to know-thc little sinners
Where to so for their last dinners.
Now, when lay me down to sleep:
Up my back they quickly creep:
10 catch them; It's no use to try,
Because they are so very Spry.